Advancing Nursing: Update on Campaign for Action

During a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) First Friday Google+ Hangout, panelists discussed the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action and in particular its focus areas of raising the level of nurse education; ensuring a diverse nursing workforce; making sure nurses can work “to the top of their license” and fully use their education and training; and advancing nurses into leadership in health systems. Susan Dentzer, senior policy adviser to the Foundation, led a discussion about transforming health care through nursing and how the campaign is making steady progress to reach the Institute of Medicine’s goals for the profession.
Participants included: Susan Dentzer* (Moderator), senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Brian Cooper, senior group manager, Business Development, Target Corporation; Winifred V. Quinn*, director, Advocacy & Consumer Affairs, Center to Champion Nursing in America, a joint initiative of AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Alexia Green, professor and dean emeritus, Texas Tech University Health Science Center; Susan Hassmiller, senior adviser for nursing, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and director, Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. Learn more at www.rwjf.org/firstfriday.